House health policy advisor and the chief architect of the affordable care act. And civil rights attorney david henderson. Pete, we will start with obama care. Let s hit on a key piece of this majority opinion. Here is a quick expert exempt from justice breyer who wrote we begin with the two individual plaintiffs, the problem lies in the fact that the statutory provision, while it tells them to obtain coverage, has no means of enforcement. With the penalty, that is the mandate penalty zero out, the irs can no longer seek a penalty for not one who fails to comply. So pete, talk us through this decision. Of course the landmark case we have been waiting for. Is a big decision for obamacare. I am not sure i would call it a landmark. Only because the court took a pass on answering the fundamental question at the center of the case. Which is was the individual mandate as it now stands unconstitutional. What the court says is come interesting question but you are the wrong people to raise it.
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also had this to say about how well their current two-dose regimen is stacking up. the two doses are significantly effective. but two doses compared to nothing protects you way better than having nothing. we ll dive into those findings. we re also tracking the rise of covid hospitalizations in 30 states. and we re also keeping a close eye on capitol hill. we also learned about another big step by the jan 6th deadly insurrection. patty murray will join me in just a few minutes and we ll talk about her kept schism. and going to twill to talk about keeping children safe young. sam brock joins me with more on this, and dr. hilton is joning me. she is also a medical contributor here on msnbc. so walk us through the in data out from pfizer just a few hours ago as cases across the country are again on the rise. that is just it. right now they re not good, we re looking at 110,000 infections per day. that is a level they have not been at since early october. six states in the m
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and the freight rail, increasing that as , look, we have a bottlenecks across the country. we re doing so much with this legislation. it s going to make it easier for companies to get goods to market more quickly and reduce supply chains, bottlenecks, and now, and now, and for decades to come. you know, and according to economists, this is going ease inflationary pressure, not increase it but ease inflationary pressures by lowering costs for working families. it s going to create jobs replacing led water pipes so every american, every child can drink clean water improving their health and putting plumber s and pipefitters to work how long have we been talking about that? it s a gigantic issue. jobs make it high speed internet affordable and available everywhere in america. you heard me say this before and i apologize for repeating myself but no parent should have to sit in a parking lot of a fast food restaurant so their child could do their homework because they have no inte